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Love for Enemies
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
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“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
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“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
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At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
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Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
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salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us—
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Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
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Love for Enemies
“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
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“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
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“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’
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Everyone will hate you because of me.
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Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
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The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
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Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
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The World Hates the Disciples
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
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If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
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Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
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If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
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But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
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I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
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slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
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I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
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Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
